The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-16
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

THERE were 1862 births, "a marriages and
9S deaths in st. Adams during 1886.
COLONEL A. b. JEwETT will leave Florida
and spend several weeks in Washington.
NATHAN ROBBINS and wife of Townshend
recently celebrated their golden wedding
CAPTAIN j. A. SHELDON of Rutland has
gone to Nassau to be absent several weeks.
II. f. REACH who committed suicide in
Washington, was a native of st. Johnsbury.
THE Vermont Sons of Temperance will
hold their annual session at Bradford Feb
ruary % and "a
THE funeral of Edgar Wilder, one of the
victims of the Hartford accident, was largely
attended at st. Adams Monday.
GEORGE FISHER of Hanover was killed at
Bellows Falls by log rolling over him
while at work in the pulp mill yard
RUFUS FROST, a resident of Rutland, and
for about fifteen years baggage-master at
the union depot in that town, is dead.
Mrs. III. f. KNOWLES of Boston, we'll
known soprano, has been engaged to sing
at the first two concerts of the June festival
in Rutland.
THE Champlan Transportation Com
pany's new steamer is to be constructed of
Chateaugay steel and will be christened the
" Chateaugay."
The shearers of Merino sheep in conven-
ton at Middlebury elected E. n. Bissel of
Shoreham as president and G. A. Chapman
of Middlebury as secretary
Mrs. CHARLES SIMMoNDs of Underhill fell
backward from her steps recently as she
turned to lock her door, injuring her spine
so that her limbs are paralyzed.
THE following patents to Vermonters
have been granted: George G.. Smith, St.
Adams, fastening for hinged and sliding
doors; William Steers Brattleboro, steam
engine.
LEROY HOWE, twenty-one years of age,
committed suicide at the home of his father,
Henry Howe, in Springfield, by shooting
himself through the heart. No cause is as
signed for the deed as he appeared in the
best of spirits.
G.. T. SHANKs, editor of the Londonderry
SITTER was arrested last week on complaint
of g. III. Davenport, editor of the Windhdm
county Reformer, for criminal libel. He
could not procure the 5000 bail and was
taken to the county Jail.
THE deed transferring the title of the
Park House in Bennington to the managers
of the Soldiers Home has been made out and
sent to Bennington to be recorded. Re-
pairs on the buildings will commence in
few days. under the direction of the finance
committee, Messrs. A. B. Valentine, f.
Fairbanks, j. j. Estey and A. S. Tracy
THE Rutland Herald says that young
woman named Rose Granger died recently
where she had been at work, under sus-
pcious circumstances. Further inquiry by
a Herdld reporter ELECTS the fact that the
girl who was sixteen and woman grown,
died of typhoid fever and had been shame
fully neglected She was i'll for three weeks
without medical attendance.
EVENTS at Bennington have resulted in
the organization of a law and order league,
composed of about 200 business men and
manufacturers, bound to enforce the pro-
hibition law. The first seizure was made
last Wednesday night by Deputy-sheriffs
Cromach, Crawford and Morgan, who cap
tured a wagon-load of lager beer, in charge
of John Gunison, from New York state.
Gunison was fined $50 and costs, and APP
pealed. He has sued each officer for 8 900
damages for false imprisonment.
THE third annual convention of the
Woman's Relief Corps of Vermont at Ben
nington, February 8, closed with a grand
banquet and public installation of depart
ment officers. More than one hundred
ladies in attendance visited Vermonts new
Soldiers Home, which was opened for the
occasion. The following officers were
elected: Mrs. Amanda l.. Newcomb Mont
pelier, president; Mrs. Janette P. Blackmer,
Manchester, senior vice-president; Mrs.
Mary Head, st. Johnsbury, junior vice
presidents secretary, to be appointed; Mrs.
Margaret f. Carleton, Montpelier, treasurer;
Mrs. Julia A. Robinson, Waterbury Center,
chaplain, MIS-. u. ", HOWE, DrdttleDOrO,
inspector; Mrs. Laura A. Long, Bennng-
ton, counselor; Mrs G. Dudley, South Lon
donderry, instituting and installing officer;
delegate-at-large, Mrs. j. G. Howe; alter
nate, Mrs. Helen Williams, Dorset; dele
gates to national convention, Mrs. Alice
Moulton of St. Johnsbury, Mrs. Sarah G.
Brock of Montpelier, Mrs. Laura A. Long of
Bennington, Mrs. Lizzie w. Chaplin of Bel
lows Falls; alternates, Mrs. Sarah Hamilton
of Manchester Center, Mrs. Mary l.. Jack
man of Wallingford, Mrs. NJ. Whipple of
Woodstock, Mrs. DENIS H. Coffey of Wind
sor.
In General.
CHARLES WEHLE, composer and pianist, is
dead.
A RAILWAY is to be built in the Congo
Free State.
Mr.. GosCHEN has succeeded in being
elected to parliament
A FIRE in the Dodgeville Mills in Attle-
boro, Mass. caused a loss of SD 600.
E. W. HoYT of Lowell, Mass, the we'll
known cologne manufacturer, is dead.
OWING to the snow blockade, coal sells
for sixty dollars per ton in northern Mon
tana.
THREE men were killed and six others
hurt by falling walls at big fire in st.
Louis.
CATTLE in northern Montana are reported
suffering Intensely from UHe COuJluueu cOlu
weather.
MUCH damage by water is reported from
Freeport and Aurora, H., and Palmyra,
New York.
THE United States supreme court has de-
cded that Snow the Mormon apostle, was
wrongly convicted.
REV. SAMUEL HOPKINS, an eminent divine
and scholar of Northampton, Mass, is dead
aged seventy-nine years.
DRs j. II. BAXTER AND JOHN b. HAMIL-
TON have traced the last illness of the late
General Logan to his exposure during the
war.
A PETITION, signed by men representing
$1,000 900, has been presented to the Rhode
Island legislature asking for the repeal of
the prohibitory law
JUDGE THOMAS RUSSELL, well known in
POLITICAL judicial and railroad circles of
Massachusetts,, as well as in the social circles
of Boston, died Saturday.
THE final report of the cotton crop last
year shows better average than was indi-
Gated by the November estimate. The
quantity is greater and the quality is SUI
perior.
| MRS. HENRY WOOD the novelist is dead.